Managing the Green Hardware Lifecycle...



This Consultancy offering from greenWise-it provides you with assistance in considering your Hardware Life Cycle as part of a holistic Green IT Strategy.

Companies seeking to make their IT Organisations as environmentally efficient as possible must look critically at the purchase, through-life use and ultimate disposal of their hardware assets to ensure that the Hardware Life Cycle fits with and complements the Green IT Strategy of the Company

We have found that if IT is to truly achieve ‘Green-ness’ then it needs to be following a well defined, comprehensive, consistent and holistic Green IT Strategy, that sets meaningful ‘Green related’ goals and targets for IT to achieve in the short and medium term. The management of Hardware Assets from Procurement to Disposal need to sit within this strategy which will ideally also be fully aligned and complementary to the overall corporate Green strategy).

We can assist you in developing, implementing and maintaining a hardware asset management regime as part of your Green IT strategy. Through our years of experience we have developed a simple yet highly successful 5 step methodology for evaluating the benefits:
1. Define the Vision, the goal. Understand and articulate what are your drivers for Developing Through-Life procedures for all Hardware Assets

2. Where are you now? This will involve analysing status of any current Green IT initiatives you are undertaking (or have undertaken in the past) to define the context for the project. It will also provide a baseline of your current environment including Current procedures and practices for procurement, asset management and disposal.

3. Define the new procedures and practices that will govern the procurement, use and disposal of your IT Assets.

4. Publicise, educate, promote and implement the Strategy. We recommended that this should be undertaken by using a formal Project Management approach.

5. Measure success and sell benefits. A key activity is the constant evaluation and promotion of the new procedures within the Green IT strategy, both within IT and in the organisation as a whole.

For more information on the Consultancy services that we offer please contact us at enquiries@Greenwise-it.com